Finally, I put together another spreadsheet listing home values, tax rates and property tax bills for the nation's most populous 500 counties. This is based on what heads of households report to the Census Bureau on a huge, relatively yearly census survey known called the American Community Survey. This shows, interestingly enough, that our property tax bills here are relatively high -- about No. 130 or so among the 500 largest counties. But that's not because our tax rates are so high -- they're about 20 percent below the national median for big counties -- but because our home prices are relatively high. (Not California high or New York high, thank goodness.)